* Ecuador: Demonstrators at Chevron’s annual shareholders meeting are expected to rally for several environmental causes such as the company’s purported dumping of toxic water in Ecuador.* Peru: Indigenous leaders and the government are holding talks in order to end a six-week protest over land rights in the Amazon jungle.
* Mexico: Twenty-seven “high-ranking” officials including ten mayors were arrested and charged with cooperating with drug gangs.
* Cuba: Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said that he would “love” to join Cuba outside the Organization for American States and create a separate regional entity.
Image- MSNBC
Online Sources- BBC News, Bloomberg, Houston Chronicle, El Universal, The Latin Americanist
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